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...test tube and in laboratory animals, terramycin kills heavy growths of bacteria which cause one of the commonest forms of pneumonia, streptococcal infections, typhoid fever, and many intestinal and urinary tract infections. These are the disease germs against which antibiotics already in use are most effective. So if terramycin shows up well in the tests, now beginning, on humans, it will give doctors an extra weapon of a familiar type, rather than a basically...
...hospitals,* but the result offered hope that other such outbreaks might be arrested or avoided. Last August, babies born in Port Huron's red brick, ivy-covered hospital and sent home as normal began to be readmitted with diarrhea. Some died. Laboratory tests indicated none of the three commonest causes of the disease (bacteria of the Shigella or Salmonella groups, or a virus). In October the disease invaded the hospital's nursery. To cut down cross-infection, babies were kept in their mothers' rooms. But by year's end the death toll had reached...
Lorge admits that his Semantic Count of the 570 Commonest Words is a "scholar's enterprise" ("I don't expect to hit the bestseller lists"). So far, he has printed only 49 copies, but he hopes that these, planted in libraries throughout the U.S., will help dictionary and textbook writers to begin putting first things first...
Replies from 2,639 public-school systems throughout the country showed that 1,931 (73.2%) had no religious instruction program. Of these, a sixth had recently abandoned such programs. Commonest reason: last year's Supreme Court decision. Nonetheless, more schools (about 13%) had religious education than...
...some form, poliomyelitis is probably one of the commonest diseases. Current medical opinion is that nearly everybody gets it, but usually in so mild a form that it seems to be only a sick headache, or a low fever, not unlike a cold. Millions of such cases are never recognized. The lucky victim, once his system has thrown off the virus, appears to be immune to further attacks...